lobsteriffic wrote:Thanks. I agree with you. The number on the scale is just that...weight. It doesn't tell you what's fat, muscle, water, etc. I feel good, my clothes are fitting well and I'm being consistent with my routine. Or at least that's the pep talk I've been giving myself all day.

Good make it your daily mantra. If you clothes are fitting well and your doing the work diet and exercise wise you will get there. Seriously on the weight thing. I am five six and weigh 135. When people see me they never believe I weigh that much thinking I am around 120. But the muscle I have put on makes me heavier on the scale. I actually have an ironman scale that measures how much of your weight is muscle, water , fat etc. They can be expensive but maybe you can get it as a wedding present or something. I got it as a birthday present. I think it is around 100 USD. My fat tends to fall between 15 - 20 percent so I don't let the fact that I am 135 bother me because I know I am a healthy 135 and for me to get lighter I would have to cut muscle. Of course I could cut some fat too but since I am not bodybuilding I don't really worry about it. I think your doing great.

Diet:Pre-workout: bananaPost-workout: protein powder & soymilk, 3 rice cakesLunch: grilled tofu over salad with dressing; pearSupper: pizza with this cauliflower crust I've been experimenting with (not quite there yet, when I get it perfect so I'll blog about it and post the recipe); pearSnack: peanut butter

It's an Atkins recipe that calls for riced cauliflower, an egg, and 1 cup of mozza cheese, and some seasonings (oregano, basil, etc). I've been trying to recreate it with the cauliflower and flax. Still fiddling around with it. It tastes good, it just doesn't hold together very well.

I love cauliflower too! I've been known to roast whole heads of it and eat the entire batch....

I have also roasted and eaten entire heads of cauliflower! Have you tried using Ener-G egg replacer instead of the flax? I find it works more consistently for me in baking than the flax does. It is a powder. I get it right at my grocery store.

I've tried a variety of things. None overly successful. My thoughts are mashed potato would work but the whole point of using cauliflower is that it's low carb....You're right though, I should try Ener-G. Maybe for my next experiment I'll play around with that.

If you try it let me know how it goes. I don't believe in the whole low carb thingfor myself. I believe it is about eating the right kind of carbs. I know you can cut weight fast lowering carbs but it usually makes me really cranky, which I just don't think can be good for the body so I try to make sure my carbs are from natural sources and then I don't worry about it. To me eating something in it's natural state like a potato (or a sweet potato, yam, fruit, etc.) is so much better for you than eating refined carbs. I just can't believe a potato is bad for you. It's a vegetable.I didn't realize you were doing the low carb thing. Do you think it works for you?

Sorry - I should have clarified, I LOVE carbs! 99% of the time I'm well over 200 g for the day, which I don't think anyone would count as low. When I was vegetarian I tried carb cycling, and on my low carb days (~50 g) I felt horrid. I don't think mashed potato would be all that bad for you at all, I was just saying that it is kind of ironic to add mashed potato to an Atkins recipe.

I'll give it a try this week and see how it turns out. An all-veggie pizza crust would be awesome!

Today was weird at the gym. A lot of the early morning regulars were missing and there quite a few newbies. However, a lot of these newbies all had HORRIBLE form. Like really, really bad. This one dude kept lifting way too much weight and grunting and groaning and huffing and puffing so the whole gym could hear him. I really don't get the people that load on the weight and then compromise form. Like this one woman who squats a plate a side, but she's about 6" above parallel...sure my squat weight sucks, but at least I get down low enough that the movement is actually doing something for me....

Okay, end of rant.

Cardio: None. I'm going to try out HIIT two times a week and steady state two times a week and see how that goes. Doing cardio 6x a week just wasn't working for me.

Oh thanks for clarifying. I didn't mean to sound preachy. Low carb diets are a touchy subject with me. Most people I have meet that are on them are not justoverweight, they are obese and it really makes me sad to see them eating that way instead of any actual healthy diet. anyway I am going to try to PM those recipes to you tonight.

My husbands birthday is on friday and he wants the chickpea cutlets for his dinner. We haven't had those since new years eve. He really likes them and he doesn't eat cake or anything like that so I will make those for him. Not sure what I will make with them yet. Last time I think I made them with mashed parsnips, Roasted Broccoli and the Peanut butter eggplant soup from veganomicon.